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American State Data, 1956-1965 (ICPSR 24)

Principal Investigator(s):Sharkansky, Ira

Summary:

This data collection provides selected economic, social,
demographic, and political information for 48 states of the United States
during the 1950s and 1960s. Variables describe population characteristics,
such as the number of adults aged 65 and over, the number of dentists and
physicians, the number of patients in mental hospitals, the death rates of
white and non-white infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births,
respectively, the number of recipients of public assistance su... (more info)

This data collection provides selected economic, social,
demographic, and political information for 48 states of the United States
during the 1950s and 1960s. Variables describe population characteristics,
such as the number of adults aged 65 and over, the number of dentists and
physicians, the number of patients in mental hospitals, the death rates of
white and non-white infants under one year of age per 1,000 live births,
respectively, the number of recipients of public assistance such as Aid to
Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), elementary and secondary school
enrollment, enrollment in vocational programs, the total number of students
in higher education, the number of those conferred with M.A. and Ph.D.
degrees, and the number of workers in research experiment stations. Other
variables provide economic information, such as personal income per capita,
average monthly payment per recipient of some public assistance programs,
average salary per month for full-time state and local employees, state and
local government revenues and expenditures, and various intergovernmental
revenues from the federal government for certain services. Additional
variables record crime statistics, such as the number of robbery, burglary,
larceny, auto theft, assault, rape, and murder offenses per 100,000 of the
population. There are also variables that give information on each state's
topography, such as the acreage of state parks, total farm acreage, municipal
road mileage, and total unsurfaced road mileage.

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Study Description

Citation

Sharkansky, Ira. AMERICAN STATE DATA, 1956-1965. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1998. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00024.v1

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Methodology

Data Source:

UNITED STATES STATISTICAL ABSTRACT, BOOK OF THE STATES

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statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: